Bug Workarounds

Alamo Rookie

When SoD2 players need help with bugs, they may go looking for help at the now defunct official UL forums, and they may just find their way here. So if you find a workaround for a bug, post it here and help out your fellow survivors!

Here's one that @Julia Faye found:
If you have a mission to find something and there's no searchable containers in the building, a simple quit and reload should fix that.

Zed Hunter

One may encounter a bug wherein a character's backpack fails to appear. This is a visual glitch and can be fixed by either unequipping and reequipping the backpack or by picking up and putting down a rucksack.

Zed Hunter

So a common problem seems to be having a follower stop responding to your attempts to interact. Especially annoying if you had them carrying the jerry cans and you need to refuel.

I've discovered a workaround! Go to your community tab, highlight their character and switch directly. This will put you in their shoes and should restore the more direct form of interacting. While I've not tested it, this method should also work for those of you whom have dealt with the follower constantly running away glitch.

Note: as this requires the follower to be a member of your group, this will not work on NPCs.

Alamo Rookie

If you're having morale issues due to infestations but you can't actually see any on your map, you may have been hit with the invisible infestations bug. Luckily, @BYoru has found a couple of excellent little workarounds which can be found in full here:

Rescued Ally

For those that install an update and get an infinite black screen after hitting continue game or new game:

turn off your Xbox one controller, and clear your system cache. (Hold down on the Xbox logo of the console for 10 seconds) after about 15 seconds, turn on your Xbox and login. The problem should now be fixed.